I am your typical housewife living in high maintenance suburbia. I have a handsome husband, 2 kids and a flock of pet chickens. I try and feed my family with $100 a month. With the help of coupons, gardening and bartering I am able to squeeze the most out of our grocery budget and still manage to have a little fun along the way.

Mix 1/2 cup white vinegar to 1/2 cup water in a microwave safe bowl. Bring it to a boil in the microwave. Stinky microwave, gone. And food splatters should wipe off easily. {Drop your kitchen sponge into the water while it boils, and you’ve clean and sanitized it at the same time}

Remove water rings from wood by using a solution of equal parts white vinegar and mineral oil.

Fix stinky garbage disposals by pouring 1/2 cup baking soda and 1/2 cup hot white vinegar down the drain. Let sit for about five minutes and then flush with hot water.

The book’s author, Vicki Lansky, has great books out for parents. I used her baby food book, Feed Me I’m Yours. She also wrote The Taming of the C.A.N.D.Y. Monster. She’s very practical, and her books are always full of great ideas.

Vinegar is just so useful! Hydrogen Peroxide is running it a close second at my house. :O)

I started out making Laundry detergent, I mean 3 cents a load for liquid laundry soap that works every bit as good as anything you buy at the store. How can you go wrong right… then I moved onto to replacing all the other cleaners using mostly vinegar and hydrogen peroxide. Oh and Baking Soda

Saves a lot of $ and is so much healthier for us and the environment! :O)

I combine 1/2 cup of white vinegar, 1/4 cup 70% rubbing alcohol and enough water to reach the top of a spray bottle as my primary cleaning solution… bathroom sinks, kitchen counters, tile, you name it. For my kitchen floors, I use 1 cup white vinegar and 1/2 cup alcohol to a gallon of hot water. The floor gets very clean and dries very quickly.

I use white vinegar only for cleaning !! It is made either for pine or grain and has no food value,actually said to destroy food value. I
I use only apple cider or red wine vinegar for food and unpasteurized or not distilled as the heat again , destroys the enzymes also watch for sulfur dioxide to protect color it isn’t good either.

Tis great for refresing bed pans and urinals in the sick or home bound situation. Soaking stained clothes, refreshing dishwasher, cleaning steam iron, getting mildew off porch furnitature using straight white vinager, washing porch chair cushions. First I air fluff cushions to get out dust etc., I leave the cover on the foam, spotting with straight vinager, add 1 cup white vinager to wash cycle, rinsing twice. Put coushions on their side on porch to dry.

My mother dropped a bottle of liquid soap on the floor we tried everything to clean it up water didn’t help nor did a wet towel we still had soap on the floor. She got out the apple cider vinegar and poured it on the floor where the soap was. It cut the soap right away and cleaned it right up. Mom used vinegar for everything if you had a sore throat you would wash your mouth out with vinegar and water mix. or bit your tongue put some vinegar on a q-tip on put on it the next morning the pain and sore spot was gone. Start to get a cold take a tablespoon full of apple cider vinegar and then a table spoon of black molasses take this 2 times a day and also drink a warm glass of water after you take the molasses. Some say this will also help you to lose weight.???????